Facebook has teamed up with British business card maker, Moo, to offer 200,000
users free arty cards based on their user profiles.

Every ‘Facebook Card’ is made from a set template which will take a user’s profile picture as the image and glean the rest of a members’ personal details from their description on the site.

The first 200,000 users to sign up to the new scheme will receive a bundle of 50 free personalised cards, which means 10 million cards in total will be given away over a short period of time.

To apply for the first official Facebook Card, users need to click on ‘About’ in the their basic information section on the new Timeline profile page and then scroll down to ‘Contact Info’ and hover the mouse over a little business card icon – which should then direct you to Moo. The first 50,000 users will receive the cards free of shipping costs, but thereafter, a small fee will be charged.

“MOO.com is very excited to announce this integration with Facebook to provide a revolutionary new customer experience that brings together Facebook Timeline with MOO’s high-quality printed products,” said Moo chief executive and founder Richard Moross.

The offer is only available to those users who have downloaded ‘Timeline’, the site’s new type of profile which allows users to tell the story of their life on a single page.

Zuckerberg explained the thinking behind Timeline at the conference, saying: “Millions of people curate stories of their lives on Facebook every day and have no way to share them once they fall off your profile page...we have been working on ‘timeline’ all year…it’s the story of your life and completely new way to express yourself.

“It has three pieces: all your stories, your apps and a new way to express who you are.”

He said that wanted people to be able to share “their entire lives” on Facebook and have “total control” over how their content appeared online. Using his own profile to demonstrate the new timeline, Zuckerberg showed photos of himself as a baby which he has inserted into the new profile page which is organized by years.

The Facebook chief stated that he wanted people to “fill in the gaps” so that all users’ personal information was on their Facebook profile.